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New Evidence for Human Migrations | First Peoples

With the rise of new techniques in DNA analysis and the discovery of new fossil remains, the early history of human migrations is being rewritten. See the scientists rewriting history talk about their discoveries in these clips from the documentary First Peoples. Enourage students to investivage the value of scientific evidence for historians and to rewrite the first chapter of their world history textbooks with the teaching activity in Support Materials below.

Examine a tool that Neanderthals used in Europe 50,000 years ago. When Shannon McPherron of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology discovered this tool, made out of bone and containing small grooves.

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Peer into Mandrin cave in southern France, where archaeologists recently uncovered evidence of arrowheads made by Homo sapiens within a layer of earth sandwiched between other layers of artifacts made by Neanderthals.

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For many years, scientists and archaeologists thought that the first Homo sapiens arrived in the Americas roughly 13,000 years ago, through an “ice-free corridor” within a large ice sheet largely blocking the route from Asia into the Americas.

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For many years, scientists and archaeologists thought that the first Homo sapiens arrived in the Americas roughly 13,000 years ago. Then, in 2008 a team of archaeologists discovered the remains of a group of prehistoric humans in a cave on the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico.

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Examine a tool that Neanderthals used in Europe 50,000 years ago. When Shannon McPherron of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology discovered this tool, made out of bone and containing small grooves.